Lot 533
  • 533

A FAMILLE-ROSE 'ARHATS' ALMS JAR QING DYNASTY

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

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the globular body painted with a continuous scene of the eighteen arhats in a garden landscape, all depicted with their respective attributes, wood cover inset with a reticulated jade knob (2)

Provenance

Collection of Heber R. Bishop (1840-1902). 
American Art Association, New York, 20th January 1906, lot 943. 
Collection of Harriet Bishop Lanier (b. 1866), and thence by descent. 

Literature

American Art Association and Thomas E. Kirby, De Luxe Catalogue of the Art Collection Formed by the Late Heber R. Bishop, New York, 1906, pl. 943, where the vase is illustrated in an engraving by G.E. Burr. 

Condition

In fairly good condition with only minor firing imperfections (including a 3-cm firing line to the body concealed by the enamels, and short firing lines to the interior), very mild wear to enamels, surface, and footring, and "6403" painted in blue on the base. The cover in overall good condition with only minor chips to the jade.
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